36 comments on “Showers threaten Canadian GP weekend”

The Canadian GP doesn’t need rain to entertain us, the lack of grip means that the race is almost always extremely exciting even in the dry.However, I know that I certainly wouldn’t mind another wet race this weekend, considering how amazing the two others we’ve had this year were.

Did 20-25 laps of this circuit last night with the MAK-Corp 2007 F1 mod for Race07, and thoroughly enjoyed it. Kinda like a cross between monza and albert park. Very fast (i had low downforce and top speed of around 330Kph before braking into main straight chicane) but massively hard on brakes and really rewards being brave and carrying a lot of speed through the corners. Fastest lap (bearing in mind simulated 2007 spec cars) 1.16.5.

I can’t remember which year that was, but I remember it was raining heavily in Qualifying. Rain-master Michael Schumacher looked like he’ll romp his way to pole, until he spun at the hairpin. He had a huge advantage until he made that little mistake.

What about 2008? Wet race in Monaco, wet practice in Montreal, some rain at the end of the race in Magny-course, rain in Silverstone race, rain in Hockenheim practice. That’s 5 races in a row that were somehow rain-affected.

2008 been the wettest year in the last 3 decades. It has 5 races that was classified as wet races. There are a 3-4 other years that had 4 races classified as wet. So far out of 7 races we had 2 classified as wet. But of course this does not account for any wet qualifications just races that was classified as wet race during or at race start. So there could be a different year that has the most wet race weekends. But statistically so far 2 out of 7 is percentage wise higher then 08 (not by much). If we get a wet Canada race 2010 is on very good track to become the wettest race year.

to make another statistic about wet weekends we’d have to add up all the weekend sessions and make a wet percentage. (fp1, fp2, sp3, Quali and race)so so far there have been 35 sessions in f1, and only 3 have been affected by rain, i.e drivers had to use inters or wets, (Aus race, Mal quali, China race). So 3 out of 35 is nothing really…

Well personally I wouldn’t mind a smattering of rain. Just enough to have intermediates on till the first pit stop. An Australian amount of rain would be fine. Just to reduce grip just a little bit more. An negate the stupid quali tyre rule.

it is interesting that as soon as the “use both tyres” rule is thrown out (because of rain) the race gets a lot more interesting. How about use whatever tyres you want in the race full stop?? I.e. Some drivers who had poor quali going full distance on the harder tyres and front runners doing maybe two stints on the softs??

We are having wet days here in Montreal lately. Local forecasts say it will rain on Sat and Sun, and this forecast is there for a couple days already.
TOday it says over 60% of probability of rain, 10mm on saturday and 5mm on sunday.